New Relic Logstash Output Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash that outputs logs to New Relic.

Installation

Install the New Relic Logstash plugin using the following command:
logstash-plugin install logstash-output-newrelic

Versions

Versions of this plugin less than 1.0.0 are unsupported.

Configuration

Add one of the following blocks to your logstash.conf (with your specific key), then restart Logstash. There are other optional configuration properties, see below.

Using API Insert Key

Get your API Insert Key: https://insights.newrelic.com/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/manage/api_keys

Example:

output {
  newrelic {
    api_key => "<API_INSERT_KEY>"
  }
}

Using License Key

Get your License Key: https://rpm.newrelic.com/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>

Example:

output {
  newrelic {
    license_key => "<LICENSE_KEY>"
  }
}

Required plugin configuration

Exactly one of the following:

Property	Description
api_key	your New Relic API Insert key
license_key	your New Relic License key

Optional plugin configuration

Property	Description	Default value
concurrent_requests	The number of threads to make requests from	1
base_uri	New Relic ingestion endpoint	https://log-api.newrelic.com/log/v1
max_retries	Maximum number attempts to retry to send a message. If set to 0, no re-attempts will be made.	3

EU plugin configuration

When using this plugin in the EU override the base_uri with https://log-api.eu.newrelic.com/log/v1

Testing

An easy way to test the plugin is to make sure Logstash is getting input from a log file you can write to. Something like this in your logstash.conf:

input {
  file {
    path => "/path/to/your/log/file"
  }
}

• Restart Logstash
• Append a test log message to your log file: echo "test message" >> /path/to/your/log/file
• Search New Relic Logs for "test message"